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Research type:

Secondary Research (e.g. systematic review) 

Title (lead author) etc:

Cost-effectiveness of cell salvage and alternative methods of minimising perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion: a systematic review and economic model  (Davies) 228 pages, Volume 10, number 44

DOI

10.3310/hta10440
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Headline:

Study investigating methods to reduce exposure to blood transfusions from an unrelated donor finds that cell salvage would seem to be a cost-effective choice, with acute normovolaemic haemodilution possibly an even more cost-effective option. 

Project ref:

02/36/01 

Original project title:

Cost effectiveness of cell salvage and alternative methods of minimising perioperative allogeneic blood transfusion 

Chief Investigator:

Professor Linda M Davies, Professor of Health Economics, Health Sciences Research Group, University of Manchester

Start Date:

September 2003  

Date of publication in HTA journal series

November 2006

Cost:

£51,923 

MeSH* index primary terms:

BLOOD-TRANSFUSION-AUTOLOGOUS Q-methods; CELL-SEPARATION Q-methods; SURGICAL-PROCEDURES-ELECTIVE; POSTOPERATIVE-COMPLICATIONS Q-etiology (* = Medical Subject Headings)

MeSH* index secondary terms:

HUMAN; QUALITY-OF-LIFE; REVIEW-ACADEMIC; ADULT; MIDDLE-AGED; AGED  (* = Medical Subject Headings)

NRR* number, if applicable:

N0484128010 (*National Research Register) The National Research Register was a public database of ongoing and recently completed research projects funded by, or of interest to, the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS). It is now an archive of projects from early 2000 to September 2007. Search the NRR archive.

Project Protocol:

Project protocol not available

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